Colorado College honored the Class of 2022 at 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 22 in Ed Robson Arena on the snowy CC campus. Margaret A. Liu, Colorado native and renowned leader in the fields of vaccines, gene delivery, and cancer immunotherapy, delivered the Commencement address. Liu graduated summa cum laude from Colorado College in 1977. Five hundred Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded at the ceremony, which concluded CC’s 148th academic year; 13 Master of Arts in Teaching degrees were also awarded.

The Class of 2022 has 71 graduating varsity athletes, three Fulbright winners, two National Science Foundation award winners, and a Truman Scholar. In addition, the graduating class includes a Japan Exchange and Teaching Program recipient and two Princeton in Africa Fellowship finalists. Plus, more than 70 seniors have presented research at summer research symposiums at CC and in other forums. A full list of student award winners is available here.

Check out a gallery of Commencement 2022 photos, along with a curated gallery of #ColoradoCollege2022 celebratory posts, students’ Baccalaureate Blessings, and rewatch the full ceremony on the Commencement 2022 webpage.

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At the end of Block 7, State of the Rockies Fellows Izzie Hicks ’22 and Dova Castaneda-Zilly ’23 traveled with Dr. Kat Miller-Stevens, director of the State of the Rockies Project, to the Midwest Political Science Association’s annual conference in Chicago, Illinois. Hicks and Castaneda-Zilly presented a paper from the State of the Rockies Project’s 2021 summer fellowship titled “How Anger and Fear Influence Policy Narratives: Advocacy and Regulation of Oil and Gas Drilling in Colorado.” The paper was co-authored with Miller-Stevens and Dr. Jonathan Pierce and two other State of the Rockies fellows, Evan Rao ’23 and Saigopal Rangaraj ’23. Rockies fellow Greta Forseth ’23 also helped gather data for the paper.

Hicks and Castaneda-Zilly presented the paper on a panel with three other academic papers applying the Narrative Policy Framework to a variety of policy arenas. Feedback from the conference will be used to revise the paper for submission to an academic journal. The 2022 State of the Rockies summer fellows are continuing the project and will produce a second paper to be presented at the annual conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action in Fall 2022.

Mike Shum ’07 has his first directorial feature documentary “Police on Trial,” about the Minneapolis police department in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, airing on PBS Frontline on May 31. The documentary draws on unique on-the-ground reporting and filming, from the earliest days after George Floyd’s death, to documenting the trial and murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin, to ongoing struggles for police accountability and reform in Minneapolis.

Shum is a filmmaker who explores the ways in which we perceive and define home within contexts of historical and cultural struggle. Growing up a son of Hong Kong immigrants, Shum seeks to relate his own struggle through his body of work. Most recently, Shum was the writer-director and producer on the PBS Frontline post-election special collaboration, “American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil.” The film is an excerpt of a long-term project following people in the United States as they live through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Quad, an innovative joint initiative of Colorado College, Pikes Peak Community College, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and the United States Air Force Academy, brings together teams of students to collaborate on strategic projects for area clients and initiatives. In the Spring 2022 semester, Quad student teams embarked on projects for the City of Colorado Springs, Parents Challenge, The Lane Foundation, UCCS and the Community Cultural Collective. In collaborative teamwork, students brought their unique academic skill sets together to complete their task with multidisciplinary perspectives. The products created this term range from an interactive website, to a large community survey, to a comprehensive research paper and all are currently in use to aid in future steps for the betterment of the community.

The Quad is a integral part of the Colorado College community, serving a bridge that helps unite the college, including faculty and students, with the community around us. If you have questions, project ideas, or students that might want to be involved, please reach out. The Quad is also looking for faculty members who would be interested in being “guest mentors,” offering a couple of hours of subject area expertise and guidance.

Autumn Rivera’s exemplary teaching has garnered her nominations for several prestigious teaching awards. She was named one of Colorado’s state finalists for the 2021-22 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation’s highest award for science and mathematics teachers. Last year, the Colorado Education Association named Rivera the 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, which automatically put her in the running as a finalist for National Teacher of the Year.

Rivera earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Colorado College in 2004 and a Master’s of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree from CC in 2005. Rivera is a science teacher at Glenwood Springs Middle School in Colorado’s Roaring Fork School District and an adjunct professor in Colorado Mountain College’s education department.

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